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Lauren Willig has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.
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Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one…
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They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.
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Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?
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They were close enough that he could feel the hurried beat of her heart. He could feel Charlotte's indecision in every word…
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Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired…
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Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.
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Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you' -- he…
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I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that…
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Quite definitely a Bingley
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It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.
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The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead…
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must…
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[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those…
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It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great…
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They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.
— Lauren Willig
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Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.
— Andre Balazs
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The mercantile business did not suit me
— John James Audubon
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Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth.…
— Rick Atkinson
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The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations…
— James Stephens
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